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Scene Description: the 1661 font now in the Museum Schloss Prestegg; it is believed to have originated in the Altstätten Stadftpfarrkirche, and is probably a composite since the base has an epitaph and was probably a gravestone originally
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tagblatt / Museum Schloss Prestegg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in Zwei bemerkenswerte Taufsteine im Museum, in the 7 August 2015 edition of Tagblatt [https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/rheintal/zwei-bemerkenswerte-taufsteine-im-museum-ld.198729] [accessed 25 December 2022],
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Scene Description: the 1805 font now in the Museum Schloss Prestegg
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tagblatt / Museum Schloss Prestegg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in Zwei bemerkenswerte Taufsteine im Museum, in the 7 August 2015 edition of Tagblatt [https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/rheintal/zwei-bemerkenswerte-taufsteine-im-museum-ld.198729] [accessed 25 December 2022],
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24543ALT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Museum Schloss Prestegg, Altstätten
Church/Chapel: [Altstätten Stadftpfarrkirche]
Church Location: Church address: Heidenerstrasse 7, 9450 Altstätten, Switzerland -- Museum address: Museum Prestegg, Rabengasse 3, CH-9450 Altstätten, Switzerland -- Tel.: +41 71 595 05 00
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: St. Gallen
Directions to Site: Located off (W) cantonal road 9/13, 8-9 km WSW of Lustenau and the Rhein river
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: 1661?
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Baroque [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing these two fonts to our attention and for his help in documenting them
Font Notes:
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The presence of two baptismal fonts among the Museum Schloss Prestegg holdings is noted in the article Zwei bemerkenswerte Taufsteine im Museum, in the 7 August 2015 edition of Tagblatt [https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/rheintal/zwei-bemerkenswerte-taufsteine-im-museum-ld.198729] [accessed 25 December 2022], one from 1661, which is believed to have originated in the Altstätten Stadftpfarrkirche, and may be a composite since the base has an epitaph ["Weile Wanderer hier am Grabe, denn hier ruht ein braver Mann, der durch keine Gunst und Gabe nie des Unrechts Ränke lernte, nur auf Pflicht und Rechtsspruch sann."] belonging to a gravestone. The second font in the Museum was acquired for the new parish church in Altstätten in 1805 by Moosbrugger aus dem Bregenzerwald for 250 guilders.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.377784, 9.541323
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 22′ 40.02″ N, 9° 32′ 28.76″ E
UTM: 32T 540863 5247289
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone? [basin only]
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Notes: the base is a gravestone re-used as font base
Inscription Location: on the re-cycled base
Inscription Text: "Weile Wanderer hier am Grabe, denn hier ruht ein braver Mann, der durch keine Gunst und Gabe nie des Unrechts Ränke lernte, nur auf Pflicht und Rechtsspruch sann."
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]